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9:25 AM ET, December 10, 2015

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Sarah Larson / New Yorker:
Serial launches season two, focusing on the case of US prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl  —  “Serial” Season Two Is Here  —  This morning at 6 A.M., “DUSTWUN,” the first episode of season two of the “Serial” podcast, quietly made its début.  It's the first chapter in a season-long exploration …
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook changes advertising policies for Instant Articles to let publishers include more ads in each article, and sell Facebook-only campaigns to marketers  —  Facebook Bends to Publishers, Tweaks Instant Articles Advertising  —  Publishers said restrictions made it too hard for them to generate revenue
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Max Mason / Sydney Morning Herald:
Facebook and Fairfax Media team up on Instant Articles
Dan Adams / Boston Globe:
Boston Globe announces $100K investigative journalism fellowship funded by companies behind the film Spotlight and First Look Media  —  Boston Globe introduces $100,000 ‘Spotlight’ fellowship  —  Inspired by the success of the movie “Spotlight,” The Boston Globe and the Hollywood companies behind …
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Profile of Martha Nelson, chief of Yahoo media and ex-Time Inc. editor-in-chief, who faces challenges as Yahoo plans to spin off core assets  —  As Yahoo roils, Martha Nelson stays focused on media  —  When Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer hired former Time Inc. bigwig Martha Nelson over the summer …
Elias Groll / Foreign Policy:
ISIS creates propaganda app with news reader functions to spread its message  —  Welcome to the Future of War: ISIS Has a Smartphone App  —  In YouTube videos depicting its rule, in Twitter messages spreading its ideology, and in chat rooms winning new recruits, the Islamic State …
Richard Gingras / Accelerated Mobile Pages Project:
Google to start sending search traffic to AMP pages as early as February 2016, announces new partners including LINE, Viber, and Tango  —  Continued Momentum For The AMP Project  —  The AMP effort is building both momentum and speed.  There has been significant progress not only since …
Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Airbnb in talks with Hearst to launch new travel magazine, after its quarterly magazine Pineapple, launched in November 2014, ended after one issue  —  Here's What Happened to Pineapple, Airbnb's One-Off Print Magazine  —  Home-rental company is now in talks with Hearst for a joint venture
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
IAC Creates IAC Publishing with About.com, Daily Beast, Investopedia  —  Barry Diller would like to sell you a Web ad.  —  That's one of the motivations behind a corporate shuffle at Diller's IAC holding company, which is combining several of its websites into a new publishing unit.
Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Iranian newspaper condemns media censorship in rare front-page editorial  —  Ettelaat editor urges President Rouhani to intervene against ban on reporting reformist figure Mohammad Khatami  —  Iran's Ettelaat newspaper has strongly objected to the state's ban on publishing the name or images …
James Slack / Daily Mail:
Daily Mail Editor Paul Dacre urges UK government to back away from plans to curb the Freedom of Information Act  —  Freedom of Information Act MUST be protected, says Daily Mail editor  — Mr Dacre made a submission to the Government's FoI commission in his capacity as chairman of the 2009 review of the 30-year rule
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Negotiations between Apple and TV programmers stalled over Apple TV because of disagreements on the mix of channels to be included in bundles  —  Why Apple Walked Away From TV (For Now)  —  Yes, Apple has walked away from the negotiating table with the TV guys, which means you won't be getting …
Oscar Williams / Guardian:
City AM says 25% of readers turned off adblockers during anti-adblocker software trial, plans larger rollout on desktop by Christmas  —  ‘Over a quarter’ of City AM readers turned off adblockers in trial  —  Financial freesheet to roll out pioneering anti-adblocking software by Christmas in move watched keenly by news publishers
Discussion: @richardwebbrez and @markismith50
CNNMoney:
Washington Post staffers and alumni mark last day in old building before they move three blocks to new offices  —  WashPo legends and a band march out of old headquarters  —  The Washington Post reporters and editors spent their last day in the building they have called home since 1950 with a mix of nostalgia and humor.
 
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
News developers from The New York Times and NPR built Elex, an open-source program that works with AP's new elections API
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Tow report on podcasts breaks down various business models, provides context through history
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Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
One month after the Wall Street Journal's launch of its WSJ City app in London, Editor Phillipa Leighton-Jones talks about lessons learned
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
RIAA and shuttered music streaming site Aurous settle piracy lawsuit for $3M
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Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
Lynda.com launches a Roku channel to bring its lessons to your television
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Duncan Robinson / Financial Times:
European Commission to examine whether aggregators should have to pay for displaying snippets of news articles
Frank Bajak / Associated Press:
Citizen Lab report documents years-long hacking effort targeting journalists and dissidents in South America
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Disney raises its ownership stake in Vice to 10% or about $400M
 

 
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads' version seems easier to use than Bluesky's custom feeds

Michael Kan / PCMag:
OpenAI makes the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows available to all users, following an October release limited to paying ChatGPT subscribers

Jibin Joseph / PCMag:
UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time
 
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